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CONFIDENTIAL TO BIG FAT LARRY: Finding God, my dear Big Fat Larry, is one thing; finding Ruth Carter Stapleton is another thing entirely. Your wife just might have a point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Baked Assertions Refuted!! | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author Norman Mailer, a self-described "Algonquin freak." Playwright Marc Connelly, 86, the only Round Table regular on hand for the party, obviously felt up to the challenge. Asked if the conversation was as lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1977 | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...forgot to rate the friendliness of the people who work at the airports in the guide [July 18]. Cheerful employees can always brighten a weary or troubled traveler. I've been in only six of the airports mentioned, but I would rate them as follows: Denver's Stapleton: very helpful and friendly. Kennedy and LaGuardia: surprisingly friendly and helpful. Charles de Gaulle and O'Hare: civil. National: grouchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

President Jimmy Carter sent a telegram asking the Charismatics to pray for him to make "the right decision toward bringing world peace." The President's sister Ruth Carter Stapleton appeared in person to tell how prayers had resolved her daughter's emotional problems. "We have to stop condemning all these problemed people," she said, "and to know that within each one there is a little hurting child, and that child is able to be healed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Charismatic Time Was Had by All | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Brother Jimmy hugs and kisses his friends in public, and so, on occasion does his sister Baptist Faith Healer Ruth Carter Stapleton. At Manhattan's New York New York discotheque, she showed up for the 35th birthday party of Freelance Writer Dotson Rader who is researching an article about her for the New York Times Magazine. Stapleton; 46, danced a bit and inspired some affectionate smooching from the guest of honor, who finds her "one of the most beautiful women I've ever met." Stapleton also spent part of the evening in the disco vestibule with Rader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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